Ashleigh Haruda Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Ashleigh Haruda While some ancient older civilisations such as Egypt and Rome kept cats as pets, we don't know much about cats outside of those times and places, so this find is helping us fill in the picture that gives us a more complete picture about how people treated animals in the past. Ashleigh Haruda We could see that it had lost its canines and some of its other teeth completely and that the tooth roots had healed over, the loss of these teeth would have made it difficult for the cat to hunt successfully. Ashleigh Haruda Previously on the steppe, we have limited evidence for pet keeping, and no evidence yet for domestic cats, however, the people at the city of Dhzankent not only kept this cat, but kept him alive and cared for him. Ashleigh Haruda The bones don't just tell us what animal it was, but also tell us a number of other things, such as its ancestry( through ancient DNA) and its diet( through chemical isotope analysis). Ashleigh Haruda
